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Today the Court cuts the heart out of two of the most important and inseparable safeguards the Bill of Rights offers a criminal defendant: the right to submit his case to a jury, and the right to proof beyond a reasonable doubt . . . The skeleton of these safeguards remains, but the Court strips them of life and of meaning . . . The Court asserts that when a jury votes nine to three for conviction, the doubts of the three do not impeach the verdict of the nine. ((But)) we know what has happened: the prosecutor has tried and failed to persuade those jurors...
...Republican hymnal? No, just a few of the burns inflicted by Democrats on one another last week at a dinner sponsored by Independent Action, a liberal political-action committee. The original idea was engagingly ironic. The seven Democratic presidential candidates would feast on the foibles of New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, the popular recalcitrant whose internal clock says 1988 is not his time. The Seven Dwarfs take on the big guy. But the celebrity roast became a multilateral immolation, as if each candidate wanted to keep his rivals short...
...long," he noted with a touch of seriousness, "to be taken seriously." He rejected outright any leveling metaphor -- especially dwarfs. "I'm Rudolph," he said. "These are the six reindeer." Then he spun a parable about Bradley's "fight against racial stereotyping." Said Jackson: "We all know the Bill Bradley story -- how the young white man from the right side of the tracks dreamed of one day becoming a professional basketball player...
Dukakis, precise and methodical, fired small-caliber slugs at minor targets, such as the lack of charisma he and Bradley share. "The fact of the matter is that I've been coming on charismatic the last month or two," said Dukakis. "I've learned everything I know from Bill Bradley." Bruce Babbitt demonstrated his yen for subtle complexity by playing off Jimmy Carter, with whom he is sometimes compared, and Gephardt, whom he must beat in Iowa. Like Carter, he deadpanned, he discusses issues with his children. Babbitt quoted his nine-year-old son as saying, "Dad, you've really...
Though it cedes first place to Philly, New York City also claims a piece of the Constitution. New York, after all, was the U.S. capital from 1785 to 1790 -- the place where Congress held its first session and where the Bill of Rights was drawn up. As befits that lofty history, the city's celebrations are mostly cerebral. The New York Historical Society has scheduled a series of lectures (one title: "The First Amendment: from the Age of Enlightenment to the Electronic Age"), and the New York Public Library has arranged some 70 events and five exhibitions. On show...